The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-04-22
SOME LIVELY KICKING.
The Interstate Commerce
Law a Huge Fraud.
THE INJURIES IT INFLICTs.
Petitions for the Suspension Of the
Long and Short Haul Clause
The Commission Worried ~
The Interstate Commerce Law.

The IuI6E-SGAL0 Lag. !"
WASHINGTON. April 21.-Thefollowing
telegram has been received by the inter
state commerce commissions
SAS JOSE, CAL April 21.-The New Ala
media is The largest quicksIlyer-pro9ucInS
mine in the United States. Its Prlnc!ps .!
works are in New York, Where I!s proutIic ,
comes into competition with spanish quick
silver shipped at low rates OF trelgnt from
London. The present transcontlnentai
+stes shut us out of the New York market
entireIv. and will have, consequently, a
disastrous effect on this lqdqS'ry.
(Signed.) D. D. 1SA-t 49,,
Saveral kilograms have been received
from Pacific Coast fruit industries, set
ting forth the disasters threatened by
transcontinental rates.
Charles Tweed, of New York, ad-
dressed the commission on behalf of the
Trsyer of the Southern Pacific Railroad
FomDanv for a suspension of the fourth
sectinn of the inter state commerce
Iew The Northern Pacific Company
viii file like petition this afternoon.
T. Britton addressed the commission
on behalf of the Atchison, Topeka &
santa Fe Railroad.
c. NJ. Wicker, representing the Board
of Trade and merchants of Chicago,
teIegraphed, asking the commission to
withhold its decisions until an argu-
ment can be submitted in favor of the
SUSPENSION of the long and short haul
clause on Pacific Coast traffic providing
the rates to the great lakes and tn
Mississippi valley be made proportion
ate!y less than from the Atlantic sea-
board as has beeDlthe case in the past.
kilograms signed by W. I. Garrett,
president Of the Manufacturers Associa.
ton OF California, 1:and q committee OF
San Francisco merchants, were re-
ceived, saying that memorials had been
mailed containing potent arguments
against the suspension OF the fourth
section of The act. =,
The Chamber of Commerce of San
Francisco telegraphed fayoring the ex
ception from the operation OF section
of special cases requiring rapid
transit.
Charles H. Tweed, of New York, ad-
dressed the commission on behalf of the
prayer OF The Southern Pacific Railway,
Tor suspension of the fourth
section OF the law in its be-
half. A similar 4 petition was con-
tanned in the address by the attorney
OF the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad; also by General William Bel
KNAPP, representing the ST. Louis and
San Francisco Railroad. Competition
of steamship routes was the principal
occasion of the petitions.
Mr.. Tweed gave notice that Judge
Dillon, representing the Union Pacific,
would be uere tomorrow.
George Gray, attorney of the North
erl Pacific Railroad, addressed the COM
missioners. He said that on examlna-
ton of the ninth secIio he had reached
the conclusion that the railroads should
not take it upon themselves to deter
mine wnat constituted similar cir
cumstances and conditions" and filed
8 petition substantially similar in pur-
port to those presented by the Southern
Pacific.
]. Z. Searles, of New York, repre-
senting the sugar refiners of the east,
including the st. Louis re6ners,
entered protest against the granting
OF the San Francisco refners' petition. |
Mr.. Taft, representing the Clipper,
Line Of Sutton g. Co., said the railroad !
commissioners were now engaged in |
irving to have the law suspended. If |
they knew that the law would not be
suspended, they would be engaged in !
carrying out its provisions in a way to
maze them successful. He asked that
= Ine !aW b lao; 50 spended, and in the gen.
sFal way asked for, but that the roads
ID,ss made to fix fair rates, and he would
Ahe the privilege Of examining wit
neSses 10 show what would be fair
rates.
:. a further hearing upon the Pacific |
mes petitions was then postponed until
Tomorrow.
ANOTHER VIEW.
WASHINGTON, Apri 2l.-Justice, Bate
man & Co., wool commission merchants |
OF Philadelphia, in letter to the COM
mission, express hope that section 4
WEI not be suspended. As regards
tTanSconunental lines protests against |
me long and short haul, they say they
come from parties who have heretofore
enjoyed the greatest benefits from cut
rates and who have had an unfair ad-
vantage. For instance. they continue,
iSSt year the merchants of San
FRANCISCO had q rate of so cents
per IoJ pounds on wool, while dealers
ana growers located several hundred
miles further east had to pay s. to 81. so
Per 100 pounds, if that wool was
shipped direct to the east. There is
wool, they say,aanow in Philadelphia,
Grown n Montana, which the railroads
!9tced to be sent thence via San Fran
cisco, making the haul 1000 miles.
shLe II shipped direct, it would have
travelled only 1000 miles. The object of
E4e discrimination was to give San
1 FRANCISCO merchants an opportunity to
exact toll before it reached its natural |